„Magical Soup. Media Art from the Nationalgalerie Collection, the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof and Loans“, Exhibition View Hamburger Bahnhof –
Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin 2020 / Nam June Paik, I Never Read Wittgentstein (I Never
Understood Wittgenstein), 1997 / 2013 erworben durch die Freunde der Nationalgalerie — „Magical Soup. Media Art from the Nationalgalerie Collection, the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof and Loans“, Exhibition View Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin 2020 / Nam June Paik, I Never Read Wittgentstein (I Never Understood Wittgenstein), 1997 / 2013 erworben durch die Freunde der Nationalgalerie © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Mathias Völzke

**Stan Douglas, Deux Devises: Breath and Mime, 1982-1983 (Video Still, Detail)** © Stan Douglas. Courtesy the artist / Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof

**Pipilotti Rist, Extremitäten (weich, weich), Video-Audio-Installation, 1999 (Video Still, Detail)** © Pipilotti Rist. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Luhring Augustine / Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / 2008 Schenkung der Friedrich Christian Flick Collection

**Keiichi Tanaami, Good-by Elvis and USA, Videostill, 1971** © Keiichi Tanaami + Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden / Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie

**Korakrit Arunanondchai, With history in a room filled with people with funny names 4, 2017** © Korakrit Arunanondchai 2019; courtesy the artist; Carlos / Ishikawa, London; Clearing, NewYork; Bangkok CityCity Gallery, Bangkok

**Korakrit Arunanondchai, Painting with history in a room filled with people with funny names 3, 2015** © Korakrit Arunanondchai 2019; courtesy the artist; Carlos / Ishikawa, London; Clearing, NewYork; Bangkok CityCity Gallery, Bangkok

**Nevin Aladağ, Voice Over, Video-Still, 2006. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie** © Nevin Aladağ / © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020

Magical Soup
Media Art from the Nationalgalerie Collection, the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof and Loans

06.09.2020 to 18.04.2021
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin

Spaciously presented across more than 2,000 square metres in Hamburger Bahnhof’s Rieckhallen, the group exhibition Magical Soup features key works complemented by loans representing the latest generation of artists, with a common point of departure being the nexus of sound, image and social space.

Music has the power to create imaginary worlds. Sounds can physically shake up rooms. And images can conjure up auditory spaces that draw us beyond canvases and screens. Magical Soup explores the power and the magic with which images, sound, music, and language create, reveal or hide reality. The works range between precise observation, radical self-expression, and deliberate deconstruction of identity.

A Spectacle of Media Art

The Nationalgalerie has one of the most extensive museum collections of media art in Europe. Its holdings of important historical video art have been supplemented over the last few years by exceptional time-based works of recent origin. Magical Soup brings together works by the media art pioneers Nam June Paik, Jochen Gerz, Charlemagne Palestine, Ulrike Rosenbach and Keiichi Tanaami; by the multimedia artists Nevin Aladağ, Stan Douglas, Cyprien Gaillard, Douglas Gordon, Rodney Graham, Dmitry Gutov, Anne Imhof, Joan La Barbara, Pipilotti Rist, Diana Thater, Lawrence Weiner, Nicole Wermers and David Zink Yi; and by the younger artists Korakrit Arunanondchai, Trisha Baga, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Christine Sun Kim, Sandra Mujinga and Sung Tieu.

The exhibition is accompanied by a publication with texts by Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Chloe Stead and Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor. Among the online offers, a series of video contributions with artist’s talks and exhibition films about Magical Soup has been produced to accompany the exhibition.